For fans of history and Perlstein's work, this is a don't-miss success in his triumphant mapping of the arc of the New Right from goldwater to reagan; if you don't like super dense and well-researched explorations of the past, maybe skip it.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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